Richard C. Lewontin

Biology’s Brave New World: The Promise and Perils of the Synbio Revolution

by Laurie Garrett

The Principles for the Oversight of Synthetic Biology

by the Friends of the Earth US, the International Center for Technology Assessment, and the ETC Group

Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People

by Harry Ostrer

The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology

by Nadia Abu El-Haj

The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding

by Sarah Burns

Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties

by Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli

Convicting The Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong

by Brandon L. Garrett

The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture

by Evelyn Fox Keller

What Darwin Got Wrong

by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography

by Janet Browne

The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin, annotated by James T. Costa

Why Evolution Is True

by Jerry A. Coyne

It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick

by Greg Gibson

The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould

edited by Steven Rose, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks

Punctuated Equilibrium

by Stephen Jay Gould

The Evolution–Creation Struggle

by Michael Ruse

Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd

Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science

a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists

The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science

by Horace Freeland Judson

Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

by Evelyn Fox Keller

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

by Brenda Maddox

Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution

by Victor K. McElheny

DNA: The Secret of Life

by James D. Watson, with Andrew Berry

Science, Truth, and Democracy

by Philip Kitcher

Science, Money, and Politics:Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion

by Daniel S. Greenberg

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

by Francis Fukuyama

The Ecological Risks ofEngineered Crops

Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellon

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

Vandana Shiva

Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods

Alan McHughen

Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation

a report by the Committee on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Research Council